Self-assembly of soft hybrid materials directed by light and a magnetic field

Jan Hendrik Schenkel; Avik Samanta; Bart Jan Ravoo

doi:10.1002/adma.201304689

Self-assembly of soft hybrid materials directed by light and a magnetic field

Adv Mater. 2014 Feb;26(7):1076-80. doi: 10.1002/adma.201304689. Epub 2013 Nov 26.

Authors

Jan Hendrik Schenkel¹, Avik Samanta, Bart Jan Ravoo

Affiliation

¹ Organic Chemistry Institute and Graduate School of Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstrasse 40, 48149, Münster, Germany.

PMID: 24277574
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201304689

Abstract

Dual-responsive soft matter: A soft hybrid material composed of superparamagnetic nanoparticles and cyclodextrin vesicles self-assembles in microscale linear aggregates in water in response to magnetic field as well as light.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't